crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – [link]. Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – [link]. End of an Era: The Golden Age of Tech Blogging is Over – [link]. 2011 tech highlights – from @waltmossberg - [link]. Tech tradeshows days are numbered – [link].

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

This is how I describe a marketing plan to my clients: “While marketing is the engine driving your business, a marketing plan is the road map guiding your business.” ” While marketing is the engine driving your business, a marketing plan is the road map guiding your business. Talk with department directors and managers.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. New Communications Review. Member since 01/2005. Interest in this waned when the Internet bust resulted in most tech start-up equity becoming worthless, but it seems to be coming back. August 2011.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

So if you were to use Google or any other search engine, your name would be lost in the crowd. That’s why I set out to start my own health-tech company, an online pharmacy called Honeybee Health, that used a direct-to-consumer model to give patients access to affordable medications without insurance or middlemen.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Kumo is a Japanese term for spider and was previously the name of an early Microsoft search engine that eventually evolved to become Bing. Not only did I have a suggestion, I created a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) program and named it, KidGINEER, LLC. Thanks to Mathew Porter, Kumo ! #2- 2- One Word.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

Though I should point out was still doing client work for OneMatchFire until mid-2005 until the business could pay full salaries. From the middle to 2005 to early 2010 the business was break-even or better every quarter. HW: If you were just starting your career in tech, would SF still be where you chose to settle?

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. What They Do: Travel search engine. round closed Feb 2005. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Although bootstrapping is still an approach in Austin, a lot has changed since I wrote my original challenge to the Bootstrap Austin group back in 2005. Groups list on March 15, 2005. I farmed out work to Wharton undergrads that were in the Management of Technology program. It isn’t the early days of technology anymore.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 28, 2013

Business-as-usual is not a credible response,” Blank writes in the cover story of the May issue of the Harvard Business Review : Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything. As Blank writes in HBR , “It’s already becoming clear that lean start-up practices are not just for young tech ventures.” The book was published in 2005.)

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

But I’ll grant that he taught us a lot and had crazy-good engineers. We knew we had to quickly branch out and build more solutions than customer ratings and reviews to have a real platform?—?and But remember that this was 2005?—?and Their CEO was ultimately too protective and too conservative. Yeah, I guess you could say that.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. Michael and Mark are business savants, just like Michelangelo was an art and engineering savant (by the way, I’m pretty sure Michelangelo would have made a damn good entrepreneur in this day and age). As of today, RetailMeNot is worth $1.33 It is worth $3.4

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In the beginning of any technology revolution the technology gets ahead of the institutions designed to measure and regulate safety and standards. Two massive changes are occurring in automobiles: 1) the transition from internal combustion engines to electric, and 2) the introduction of automated driving.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

There is plenty of debate, however, over what drives that job creation engine in our country. 6) The most efficient fuel for this IPO engine is venture capital. The BDS series tracks the annual number of new businesses (startups and new locations) from 1977 to 2005, and defines startups as firms younger than one year old.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! I started to appear where we started to leverage or talk about technology and automations and optimization. And that was, you know, 2004, 2005 was, I was realizing that it was no longer about working harder. And now we've got technology coming in. Like this show?

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Altgate

MAY 3, 2009

Amazingly, I had no thought of building a search engine. But, much later we happened upon a better way of ranking webpages to make a really great search engine, and Google was born. The optimism of youth is often underrated! The idea wasn’t even on the radar. When a really great dream shows up, grab it! Bookmark the permalink.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

He’s constantly talking about the future before it gets here, and it’s clear this is a passion of his more so than a business interest – he just likes to geek out on technology, marketing, social media and the web, but always refers back to how it could be used to make money.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

All of this is in addition to the macro challenges that Israeli startups had to deal with in 2023 even before October 7th, including international investor unease due to the proposed judicial reform (that has since been taken off the table), Ukraine war, global venture slowdown ( US VC investments were down 60% in 2023 ), etc.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

But a new angel fund is hoping that they’ll do the same in exchange for engineering talent. The shortage of startup technical talent, especially in New York City, has been well-documented. Have an account? “Once that product is built, you will probably have given away a lot of equity.&# Kayserian believes they will.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

The innovation engine that powered the U.S. The $30 billion trade surplus in advanced technology products that America enjoyed just one decade ago has now become a $56 billion deficit. million applications awaiting approval, and more than half have never had an initial review, which really hurts startups.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

In honor of Netflix’s big beat today in the very unfortunate age of COVID-19, I decided to revisit my four-part Bazaarblog series while I was CEO of Bazaarvoice (from our inception in 2005 to our IPO in 2012). Second, when Brant and I founded Bazaarvoice there were only three retailers in the US with customer reviews.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

9:33) Scaling Up Excellence , process debt, technical debt, and human capital debt, plus rapid prototyping during the pandemic. (13:58) 28:12) The pandemic as a moment to invest in people and technology, have a plan and execute. Highlights from the show: Carl details his background and experience. (4:22) And look, it was a scary time.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Hint: 60 million US Latinos driving US growth engine) I am beyond excited to announce the Herb Scannell has agreed to move from NYC to Los Angeles to take on the role of CEO at mitú, the fast growing Latino digital media company, serving more than 100 million monthly unique viewers. Why the Former President of Nickelodeon Joined mitú as CEO.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 31, 2022

12:15] Where do you send people to figure out the tech they should be using? [17:28] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! I wasn't a fighter pilot it and I wasn't even a real engineer. Now you've been interviewing since 2005 on this show, but then at some point you introduce the, the solo episodes.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

By the late 1930′s when HP started, a small group (measured in hundreds) of engineers who made radio tubes were building the valleys’ ecosystem for electronics manufacturing, product engineering and technology management. And these microwave engineers were working at startups – not large companies.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

As I dug around, I was stunned to discover that I was hardly the first one to figure this out: my observations have been common knowledge among industrial engineers for almost a century. Electronic Arts is no different than many high-tech companies in this regard. hours per week — but after that many hours, whos still counting?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: From Nothing To Something.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Target redesign in 2011 resulted in less revenue + a myriad of technical problems. This is Amazon in 2005: Yes, different – but not radically different. You can figure out those items in a month or two if you’re diligent. This happens to big sites too. Remember Digg.com? Their redesign might be why you don’t.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2018

At Samsung, user research led the company to redesign its televisions in 2005, doubling their market share in just two years. Reviewing real-time user tests to understand users’ thought processes as they try to complete a task on a website. The vast scope of research that may take place within an organization. Image source ).

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

After being laid-off (again), I started a sales consulting business helping tech start-ups build, grow, and coach their sales teams. My company provides the best products and devices to turn on the skin’s natural regeneration engine. I started my business consulting firm in 2005 when I decided to become a mom.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

That not only signifies the missed opportunity that BlackBerry is desperately trying to make up for now — following its botched weekend launch of BBM for iOS and Android — but it sees Livingston’s own startup over take the company that gave him his start in the technology world. “I I went to university in Waterloo in 2005 for engineering.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. Want to start a startup? Apply for funding by March 3. Few startups get it quite right. Whendel.icio.us

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

Facebook, Twitter Engineers Tweak Google’s Social Search [VIDEO]. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Tech & Gadgets Highlights. Jobs Join Mashable on Google+ Welcome to Mashable!

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I get approached about clean tech or biotech periodically – I don’t focus on these. In ad tech there’s Seth Levine at Foundry Group and both Dana Settle & Ian Sigelow at Greycroft.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I have a few contractors to do the technical side of my work and a customer support person, but that’s it. I didn’t have a contractor doing technical things for me. I discovered blogging because I was told it was great for search engine rankings. DOING DUE DILIGENCE. I don’t actually have any employees.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 24, 2015

A study in the Harvard Business Review noted that increasing customer retention by 5% can generate a 25%-95% increase in profit. Autodesk , a 3D design, engineering and entertainment software company, implemented this strategy to increase usage during the trial period of their 3DS Max product. Acquiring new customers is expensive.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

I hired Kara as my legal intern in 2005 while I was working at a small firm doing workers comp and personal injury law. We approached the name change scientifically – reviewing existing company names in the industry, discussing what we liked and didn’t like and then brainstorming on names that could work. 1- Our names.

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Altgate

JUNE 1, 2009

  For example, it's tilted toward authors in the US who write about "tech" companies but I would love to expand and grow the reach.  My list has many biases.    So if you know of other blogs that should be included on this list, post a comment here and I'll update the list. Bookmark the permalink.

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